Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Quotes
Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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There have been times when I've been broke, and a job came along, and I've said, 'Yeah! Let's do it!' But I will never do something without having a feeling of knowing how to play it. I've been in projects that I felt terrible about afterwards, but I've always had something that sparked me while I was doing it.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.
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I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.
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Boarding school was a really pivotal moment. Before I went there, I was so happy. I'm not sure I was ready for it. I was only 13. My parents didn't send me away; it was my choice as well. But I definitely shouldn't have stayed for five years.
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Even if I earn millions, I will probably do the average things, like live in a dorm and work at McDonald's.
